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School district releases Parkcrest school fire investigation report
Jan 14, 2020 8:15 AM By: Brendan Kergin
1 / 1 Flames can be seen from the Parkcrest Elementary roof, on Sept. 5. (via Tereza Verenca)
Six months after a fire damaged Parkcrest Elementary School beyond repair, the school district is releasing a report on the blaze.
The report describes the firefighting efforts, the investigation, conclusions and recommendations going forward.
On Monday evening (Jan. 13), the school board received the report and discussed the findings with Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) Chief Mike Adams.
"I am (satisfied)," board chair Katleen Karpuk tells KamloopsMatters. "It reaffirms we've been maintaining our buildings, that shows we've been doing our jobs."
The report contains some newly public details on what happened on Sept. 5, 2019. At the time of the fire, three staff were on hand. They initially heard the alarm, it states, but thought it was a false alarm and two tried to reset it. As the alarm paused then continued, the third staff member spotted smoke and the three exited the school and called KFR. The resetting of the fire alarm delayed KFR's response time by three minutes and 46 seconds, according to the report.
"It's difficult to speculate (if that mattered)," Adams says. "The sooner we're informed, the better."
The report also notes that if sprinklers had been installed in the school, they might have been able to help save 20 per cent of the structure. Because the fire started above where the sprinklers are installed, they would have been less effective. When asked by the school board if 20 per cent would have been useable in the future, Adams was doubtful.
"With 80 per cent of the building damaged, it's more than likely you'd have knocked the building down and be in the same position," he said.
There had been three previous minor incidents involving smoke at the school in 2015, but the report says after investigation, KFR did not connect those incidents to the September fire.
It also restates what was released in December.
"The area of the fire origin was determined to be somewhere in the walls or concealed space between the drop ceiling and roof," it reads. "The most likely origin was the HVAC system in the concealer space above four classrooms on the west side of the building."
Recommendations from the report include annually reviewing with staff the use of fire panels and alarm systems, continued upgrading of sprinkler systems throughout the district and more meetings between the school district and KFR on fire prevention strategies. Sprinkler systems are currently in 40 of the district's 60 buildings. Plans are to install them in the rest of the buildings, but it's a costly process.
Each year the district receives $3.5 million in grants for facilities projects, which includes roofs, floors and water systems; Kay Bingham Elementary is due for the next sprinkler system at a cost of nearly $350,000.
During the school board meeting, Supt. Alison Sidow said it's an issue the district is grappling with.
"These are buildings that were built in the 1960s," she said. "They're well-maintained but ageing."
Adams added that new building codes, including sprinkler systems built in from the beginning, are making schools safer.
"Your children are safer from a fire in a school than your home," noted trustee John O'Fee, in regards to the standards schools are built to.
Both Adams and Sidow noted that one of the silver linings from the Parkcrest fire is the increased communication and collaboration occurring between the school district and KFR.
"They've done a fantastic job," Adams says of the district. "We're going to continue to build on that relationship."
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O Planalto do Colorado também chamado de Província do Planalto do Colorado é uma região fisiográfica dos Planaltos Intermontane, centralizado na região dos Four Corners ("Quatro Cantos"), região sudoeste dos EUA. A província cobre uma área de 337.000km², pegando o oeste do Colorado, leste de Utah, noroeste do Novo México e norte do Arizona. Aproximadamente 90% da área é drenada pelo Rio Colorado e seus principais afluentes: Rio Green, Rio San Juan e o Little Colorado.

Na porção sudoeste do Planalto do Colorado situa-se o Grand Canyon do Rio Colorado. Muito da paisagem do planalto está relacionada tanto na aparência quanto na geologia do Grand Canyon. O apelido "País da Rocha Vermelha" sugere as rochas nuas de brilho intenso que são a prova viva da secura e erosão permanente da região.

O Planalto possui a maior concentração de parques nacionais dos Estados Unidos. Dentre eles está o Parque Nacional do Grand Canyon, Parque Nacional de Zion, Parque Nacional de Bryce Canyon, Parque Nacional de Capitol Reef, Parque Nacional de Canyonlands, Parque Nacional dos Arcos, Parque Nacional de Mesa Verde e Parque Nacional da Floresta Petrificada. Além de parques nacionais, há vários monumentos no planalto.

Geografia

O planalto é circundado pelas Montanhas Rocky no Colorado e pelas Montanhas Uinta e Montanhas Wasatch, braços de cordilheiras no norte e centro de Utah. É também circundado pelo Rift do Rio Grande, Mogollin Rim e Basin and Range. Cadeias montanhosas isoladas como as Montanhas Southern Rocky no Colorado e as Montanhas La Sal em Utah se misturam em algumas partes com o Planalto do Colorado. É dividido em sete seções:

Bacia de Uinta
Altos Planaltos
Grand Canyon
Canyon Lands
Navajo Section
Datil-Mogollon
Acoma-Zuni

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Deserto
Four Corners

Referências

Kiver, Eugene P. and David V. Harris, 1999, Geology of U.S. Parklands, Wiley, 5th ed., ISBN 0-471-33218-6

Desertos dos Estados Unidos
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The Portland Trail Blazers and Milwaukee Bucks meet Saturday in NBA action at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
The Portland Trail Blazers look for an impressive 3-0 start by earning their third straight road win. The Portland Trail Blazers are averaging 107.9 points on 45.9 percent shooting and allowing 108.5 points on 45.5 percent shooting. CJ McCollum is averaging 28 points and seven rebounds while Damian Lillard is averaging 22.5 points and six assists. Pat Connaughton is the third double-digit scorer and Evan Turner is dishing three assists. The Portland Trail Blazers are shooting 43.7 percent from beyond the arc and 78 percent from the free throw line. The Portland Trail Blazers are allowing 37 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 43.7 rebounds per game. The Portland Trail Blazers have won six of their last eight road games.
The Milwaukee Bucks look for their first home victory of the season to get a game above a .500 record. The Milwaukee Bucks are averaging 102.5 points on 48.1 percent shooting and allowing 108 points on 48.3 percent shooting. Giannis Antetokounmpo is averaging 35.5 points and 10.5 rebounds while Malcolm Brogdon is averaging 17.5 points and 2.5 assists. Khris Middleton is the third double-digit scorer and Greg Monroe is grabbing six rebounds. The Milwaukee Bucks are shooting 32.1 percent from beyond the arc and 83.3 percent from the free throw line. The Milwaukee Bucks are allowing 40.7 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 45 rebounds per game. The Milwaukee Bucks have won eight of their last 11 home games.
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The Trail Blazers are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games playing on 0 days rest, 4-1 ATS in their last 5 Saturday games and 15-6 ATS in their last 21 games overall. The Bucks are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games playing on 0 days rest, 6-2 ATS in their last 8 Saturday games and 2-6 ATS in their last 8 home games. The Trail Blazers are 1-5 ATS in the last 6 meetings in Milwaukee, 1-6 ATS in the last 7 meetings and the underdog is 5-2 ATS in the last 7 meetings.
One thing that can expose the Bucks defense is outside shooting, something the Cavs showed in their victory on Friday night. The Trail Blazers have made a combined 23 threes in their first two games and have a rested CJ McCollum after he didn't play in the first game. I also think we're getting free points with the better team overall, something I rarely turn down. So while I'm high on the Bucks and love their defense, the value is with Portland and the free buckets.
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Zuni Street's head brewer, Willy the Warhammer, has brewed over 2,000 barrels since Zuni Street opened in 2017, with over 30 original brews making it to the taps. Working with German, Belgian, and American yeasts, Zuni Street presents customers with a bountiful variety of beer styles to please any palate.
HELLERBOCK ABV: 8.3% IBU: 22 In collaboration with Kansas City Bier Company, German for light and strong, Hellerbock is a full flavored lager brewed with all the German ingredients and an historic monastery yeast.
ST. STEPHEN'S LAGER ABV: 4.8% IBU: 18 St. Stephen's is a Vienna Lager brewed with a heap of specialty malts creating a caramel color and a pleasant, bready, biscuity aroma. The lager yeast gives this beer a clean character and crisp finish.
SOUR BOMBADALE ABV: 6.6% IBU: 9 Sour BombadAle is on the loose! An enchanting strawberry rhubarb delight, SBA will envelope your palate with a curious sour pinch and send you whistling in the woods.
PORTLY PORTER ABV: 5.4% IBU: 14 An English-style dark ale that smoothly delivers flavors of chocolate brownies and coffee. Restrained bitterness and a velvety mouthfeel make this dry porter an ideal choice for the inner pub dweller.
AMERIPILS ABV: 4.5% IBU: 21 A wonderful blend of classic German brewing and American innovation, AmeriPils is brewed as a German Pilsner, but with American hops. Delicate use of Pacific Northwest hops brings a bright hop pop to this easy drinking German delight.
522 PALE ALE; ABV: 6% IBU: 24 A bright pale ale brewed with an experimental hop known as the 522. Flavors of cherry, stone fruit, and an herbal spice come thru with the hops, while the brew still adheres to a bready maltiness.
WAY WEST WIT ABV: 4.6% IBU: 13 This Belgian style wit bier is brewed with wheat and oats for a hazy appearance and smooth malt backbone. Orange peel and coriander are added in the boil offering a nice fruity zest that mixes well with the delicious flavors from the Belgian yeast.
WHITE WOOD IPA ABV: 7.3% IBU: 40 A juicy IPA packed with aromas of pineapple and grapefruit. Brewed with wheat and oats to provide a malty backbone, smooth mouthfeel, and hazy appearance.
ZUNI STREET IPA ABV: 7.7% IBU: 45 A bright, hoppy offering, packed with flavors of citrus and tropical fruit. Full bodied and smooth, this beer is well balanced and drinkable to no end.
COLD QUEEN KOLSCH ABV: 4.7% IBU: 12 This traditional German style ale originated in the Cologne region of Germany. CQK is light and crisp with a nice malty character, and drinks like a light lager.
NARANJUS IPA ABV: 6.7% IBU: 38 This IPA went so East Coast it ended up in Belgium! A bouquet of hops creates aromas of orange, tangerine, and pineapple that blend perfectly with the fruity esters and phenols from the Belgian yeast.
WILHELM'S SCHWARZBIER ABV: 5.0% IBU: 14 Crisp and well-enjoyed, this Schwarzbier is dark in color and light on the tongue. Wilhelm's is brewed with dark malts to give an easy chocolaty flavor, lagered for ultimate crushability.
C-3PA TRIPLE PALE ALE ABV: 11% IBU: 67 In honor of the greatest droid not named R2-D2, C-3PA is a triple pale ale brewed with Cascade, Centennial, and Citra hops. With the highest ABV on the menu, this one might fry a circuit or two!
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MIDNIGHT, WHAT?! ABV: 6.5% IBU: 18 A dark Belgian abbey ale brewed with wheat and ginger. Notes of chai tea spice result from the interplay of the clove-like aromatics from the yeast, and the mound of freshly grated ginger added to the beer during the boil.
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 14 Our English Porter, aged in a bourbon barrel.
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ABV: 6.2% IBU: 26 A rich and chocolaty stout brewed with lactose and chai tea. Only 10 gallons available on earth, ready in pints, halves, and tasters!
Deceptively light and fruity, this wood aged ale is deviously complex and as sour as the lord of Mordor.
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FRAUWEISS ABV: 4.4% IBU: 10 Sweet, sour, and peachy, FrauWeiss is a traditional German Berliner Weisse that is soured to add tartness and brewed with wheat for a malty balance. Peaches are added in fermentation to give the beer a pleasant fruitiness.
NOBLE BROWN ALE ABV: 6.6% IBU: 22 A nutty, caramelly English Brown Ale, slightly dry-hopped with Old World Noble Hops.
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EVA'S GOLDEN ALE ABV: 4.9% IBU: 18 A refreshing golden ale, malt forward, with bready notes and hints of honey. Modest use of hops balances the beer, keeping it not too sweet, not too bitter, but just right!
WÜRRDIDIT GOSE ABV: 4.1% IBU: 13 A tart wheat beer that is lightly salted per German tradition. Cucumber juice was thrown in at the end of fermentation for enhanced refreshment.
TIMJIM TABLE BEER ABV: 4.4% IBU: 11 This ale is low in alcohol and big on classic Belgian flavors. Spelt gives the beer an earthy note and creamy finish. Dry and easy drinking, this beer is the epitome of sessionability.
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Chester Arthur Burnett, "Howlin' Wolf", born June 10, 1910, in West Point, Mississippi, Chester Arthur was one of Dock and Gertrude Burnett's six children. Burnett refined his singing at Life Board Baptist Church in Aberdeen as a lad. At the age of thirteen, he moved with his family to sharecrop on the Young and Myers Plantation near Ruleville. Burnett learned to play the guitar as a teen, influenced by guitarists Charley Patton and Willie Brown, who played on the square in nearby Drew. Burnett moved to the Dockery Plantation in 1929, both to work and to be around Patton.
Between 1928 and 1933, Burnett augmented his sharecropping income playing fish fries, dances, and the streets of Drew, Cleveland, and Ruleville, Mississippi. He adopted the stage name "Howlin' Wolf" during the 1930s, possibly from a record by Texas bluesman J. T. "Funny Paper" Smith. In 1933, Wolf moved to Twist, Arkansas, to farm, occasionally playing on the road with Robert Johnson, Texas Alexander, and brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson. Williamson also taught him the rudiments of harmonica, though not to Sonny Boy's own level of expertise. During the late 1930s Wolf often ventured to Memphis, playing local juke joints off Beale Street or in W. C. Handy Park for tips.
Wolf entered the U.S. Army in 1941, often entertaining troops during his hitch. After being mustered out in 1945, he returned to farming in the Delta. During the 1940s Wolf received his first radio work at KFFA, broadcasting King Biscuit Time from the Floyd Truck Lines Building in Helena, Arkansas. Joe Willie Wilkins contacted Wolf while the latter was in Moorehead and offered him work on King Biscuit Time playing harmonica when Williamson was away. In 1948, Wolf moved to West Memphis, Arkansas, where he landed a job as a DJ for radio station KWEM. Adapting to new technologies in electrical amplification, he assembled a crackerjack band featuring Willie Johnson on guitar, Bill "Destruction" Johnson on piano, and Willie Steel on drums. Sam Phillips, a white recording engineer in Memphis, heard Wolf's show and immediately arranged a recording session for the band at his 706 Union Avenue studio.
The session yielded the songs "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years," which were leased to Chess Records and released as a single. On record, Wolf's huge, ferocious voice sounded as if it were torn from the back of his throat. His high-pressure moaning punctuated by a wolfish howl sounded like an amped-up Tommy Johnson. Wolf's harmonica playing held the melody while Willie Johnson played slashing guitar riffs and Willie Steel pounded the drums ferociously. The single soon entered Billboard's R&B Top 10, rising to number eight.
Wolf moved to Chicago in 1952 to be closer to the Chess studio but he continued to record Delta blues including "I Asked for Water" (a version of Tommy Johnson's "Cool Drink of Water Blues") and the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World." He continued to tour the South, and eventually became a successful international draw.
Howlin' Wolf died January 10, 1976, in Hines, Illinois. He is buried in Chicago.
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Q: Is using an await sleep(ms) function the best way to add a delay between a write file and read file function in nodejs? I am trying to implement the following flow in my code:

*

*Get request comes in with filename in the parameter.

*Nodejs makes a call to was s3 bucket to retrieve the file that is requested.

*The file is retrieved and saved.

*The file is read and sent back in the response.

Here is my /get endpoint:
router.get('/getPDF/:fileName', async (req, res, next) => {
  const key = req.params.fileName
  console.log(key)
  console.log(key.toString())
  const goodKey = key + '.pdf'
  console.log(goodKey)
  const saveToFile = 'currentPDF.pdf'
  getFileAndSave(goodKey, saveToFile)

  await sleep(1000);
  const data = await fs.readFileSync('./s3Storage/currentPDF.pdf');
  res.contentType("application/pdf");
  res.send(data)
});

This is the getFileandSave function:
const getFileAndSave = async (key, filename) => {
var params = {
  Bucket: BUCKET_NAME,
  Key: key
};
console.log(key)
let readStream = await s3.getObject(params).createReadStream();
let writeStream = await fs.createWriteStream(path.join(__dirname, filename));
await readStream.pipe(writeStream);
return key
}

I am currently using a sleep function to add a delay, but there must be a better way to do this.

A: router.get('/getPDF/:fileName', async (req, res, next) => {
  const key = req.params.fileName
  console.log(key)
  console.log(key.toString())
  const goodKey = key + '.pdf'
  console.log(goodKey)
  const saveToFile = 'currentPDF.pdf'
  let file = await getFileAndSave(goodKey, saveToFile)

  const data = await fs.readFileSync('./s3Storage/currentPDF.pdf');
  res.contentType("application/pdf");
  res.send(data)
});
const getFileAndSave = async (key, filename) => {
 return new Promise((resolve) => {
var params = {
  Bucket: BUCKET_NAME,
  Key: key
};
console.log(key)
let readStream = await s3.getObject(params).createReadStream();
let writeStream = await fs.createWriteStream(path.join(__dirname, filename));
await readStream.pipe(writeStream);
resolve(key);
})
}

Yes well advised by aymcg31
check above modified code. Please test and mark the answer appropriately thanks.

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More specialised training for emergency services
THE Council of Majorca has announced plans to create specialised emergency teams to deal with maritime and collapsed building crises.
The plans include special training courses for workers in the emergency services.
The courses will include physical training as well as theoretical work.
It was decided to introduce the measures following a review of operations after the first 100 days of the Council Emergency Board's existence.
An important policy of the department is to provide sound intellectual and physical training for the members of its units, so that officers are interchangeable within its different sections. The emergency department will also include a series of changes in its corporate promotion section, such as the creation of an Ideas de Bombero (Firemen's Ideas) prize to be awarded to schoolchildren. Another initiative is the tour of inspection that representatives of the department's technical services will make to the Alicante Fire Station.
The object of this exercise is to compare Alicante's operational model with that of Majorca, where needs and response circumstances are similar.
It is hoped that the comparison will allow for improvements to be introduced on the Island.
With regard to infrastructure, the Emergency Service department has announced the imminent creation of the Alcudia fire station.
A series of visits will be made to all fire stations on the island in order to detect possible deficiences and to undertake reform work.
Changes will also be rung in the current administrative structure of the department.
Periodic meetings will be set up to plan out how the unit can best serve the public in the future.
A technical committee will also be created, made up of trained staff from the Emergency Service department; and "open house" sessions will be arranged where workers representatives, management, technicians and officers in charge can meet to exchange comments, criticisms and ideas for the future.


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using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using System;

namespace AlphaFS.UnitTest
{
   public partial class AlphaFS_ByHandleFileInfoTest
   {
      // Pattern: <class>_<function>_<scenario>_<expected result>

      [TestMethod]
      public void AlphaFS_Directory_GetFileInfoByHandle_LocalAndNetwork_Success()
      {
         AlphaFS_Directory_GetFileInfoByHandle(false);
         AlphaFS_Directory_GetFileInfoByHandle(true);
      }

      private void AlphaFS_Directory_GetFileInfoByHandle(bool isNetwork)
      {
         using (var tempRoot = new TemporaryDirectory(isNetwork))
         {
            var folder = tempRoot.CreateDirectory();

            Console.WriteLine("Input Directory Path: [{0}]", folder.FullName);

            var bhfi = Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem.Directory.GetFileInfoByHandle(folder.FullName);

            UnitTestConstants.Dump(bhfi);

            Assert.IsNotNull(bhfi);

            Assert.AreEqual(folder.CreationTimeUtc, bhfi.CreationTimeUtc);

            Assert.AreEqual(folder.LastAccessTimeUtc, bhfi.LastAccessTimeUtc);

            Assert.AreEqual(folder.LastWriteTimeUtc, bhfi.LastWriteTimeUtc);

         }

         Console.WriteLine();
      }
   }
}

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Q: Inserting textbox field into repeating field/line.text in Crystal reports !The Report has 3 groups - this show first ASSETS, employer contributions down is LineText repeating field, and to the right not in picture is current year and year to date totals
I am building a report where I need to add a few textbox fields in-between the fields that have an account matched with them as this is a financial report that needs to match the Schedule Form (government form)that is non-specific and has accounts listed that this company does not.
I have tried inserting a section and suppressing the repeats of the textbox and this worked for a couple of items but some are in the middle of a section number.
Thank you!


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Ready for winter? REPowerEU aims to avoid supply disruptions
The unprecedented energy crisis the EU is facing demands urgent action. Here you'll find the measures adopted under REPowerEU to reduce gas demand and their impact on companies.
by Beatriz García Fernández-Viagas
Back in February 2022, Europe saw the start of a sharp decline in its gas supplies, and a consequent dramatic rise in gas and electricity prices. Energy security is key to economic growth, and the Commission therefore made it a priority to reduce the EU's dependence on Russian fossil fuels. It unveiled the REPowerEU Plan in May 2022. Since then, it has taken a series of emergency measures to address the energy crisis. Here's what they could mean for you and your company.
REPowerEU reaches from securing energy supplies…
The most important priority to ensure that the EU can get through winter is to ensure gas reserves are well stocked. Last June, the Council issued Regulation (EU) 2022/1032 on gas storage, requiring all Member States to fill their gas storage sites to at least 80% by 1 November 2022 (and 90% in subsequent years). This target has already been achieved ahead of time.
…to reducing gas demand.
However, even full gas storage sites are not enough to cover a full year's gas demand. Last August, therefore, the Council approved Regulation (EU) 2022/1369, establishing a voluntary gas demand reduction target for all EU countries, lowering each country's national gas consumption by 15% between August 2022 and March 2023.
Member States are free to choose how they achieve this as long as they do not affect protected customers, including households, or essential services, such as hospitals and defence establishments. However, the Commission suggests that priority should be given to:
lowering gas consumption in the electricity sector;
promoting fuel switching and reducing consumption by industry; and
reducing heating and cooling.
The Council also has power to make the 15% gas reduction target binding if voluntary measures are insufficient to reduce gas demand.
Energy security is key to economic growth, and now the EU's priority to reduce the EU's dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
Exceptions to the rule
Some EU countries have been granted exemptions from these measures, particularly Ireland, Cyprus and Malta, which are not connected to other Member States' gas networks. Countries still connected to Russia's power system (such as Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia) can ask for an exemption if they are desynchronized from Russia's grid.
Member States can also request derogations from the 15% target. This might happen, for instance, if they can prove they have limited interconnection with other EU countries. For example, Spain and Portugal have already announced that they will only reduce their gas demand by 7–8% on these grounds.
National authorities can also exempt particular sectors and customers from the gas demand reduction measures. This might happen to avoid disruption of critical supply chains (like food), or potential long-lasting damage to industrial installations if they stop operating (such as textile, pharmaceutical, chemical, glass and steel plants).
Addressing soaring electricity prices
Electricity prices have hit record highs during 2022 because of the gas supply crisis. This, in turn, has increased inflation in the EU (up to 10% in September, the highest in the history of the Euro), putting even more pressure on companies and citizens.
To control electricity bills, EU energy ministers adopted an emergency Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 at the end of September establishing a voluntary target of 10% reduction in gross electricity consumption and a mandatory 5% reduction during peak hours from December 2022 to March 2023. Member States are free to decide how they will achieve these targets.
EU energy ministers also agreed to introduce a maximum price cap (of EUR 180 per megawatt-hour) for electricity generators that do not use gas, and a binding solidarity contribution on the fossil fuel sector to tackle excess financial profits made during the last few months.
In early October, the Commission announced additional planned measures, including price caps on gas imports and on the use of gas to produce electricity, and additional funding for renewables.
REPowerEU in individual member states
The REPowerEU Plan sets out a broad outlines of measures to prepare for the risk of a full shutdown of gas supplies. Concrete actions to reduce gas demand and electricity consumption and reduce energy costs are set out by all EU countries in their national emergency plans.
Most Member States are focusing on financial incentives to promote energy reduction and fuel switching (to renewables and other less carbon-intensive options) by industry. They also aim to protect businesses from high energy bills. Some countries, such as Spain, have already introduced lighting and temperature restrictions for commercial and public buildings. Others, such as Germany, will require companies to ensure that the energy efficiency of their buildings' gas heating systems is checked regularly.
What to expect next from REPowerEU
If there is a severe gas shortage, the measures adopted under REPowerEU may not be enough. If so, gas rationing is likely to affect businesses in all EU countries. Companies are advised to start looking for ways to reduce their gas and electricity use. This might include turning off lights at night, decreasing lighting and temperature during the day, or improving insulation.


This world where men, women and children live in the tradition of their ancestors is vast and scattered across all continents. Nevertheless, a lifestyle based on the traditions and customs of previous generations is not synonymous with poverty or the rejection of the modern world. Worshiping the gods in one's customs, weaving one's clothes, raising livestock or making one's soap are all inherited activities of a culture we all come from.
During the journeys I have made over the past seven years in the remote villages of various countries, I had the privilege of meeting fascinating people in their daily lives, in their approach to community and the vision they hold of their society. Their hospitality and open-mindedness allowed me to show, through this series of portraits and scenes of daily life, people living in remote and inaccessible areas, and though poor communities economically, they remain rich in their cultures based on traditions and sharing.
This book is a tribute to those people who are proud to preserve the traditions of their ancestors and to make it a model for their children in order to live in a world where the precious balance between nature and mankind remains sustainable.
I was only nine years old when I left Poland with my parents. That was in 1977. Returning fifteen years later, I felt nostalgia, but I also felt like I was an outsider. This has sometimes been to my advantage, as not being used to the routine of daily life in the country allowed me to detect the magical moments, the unusual and peculiar aspects.
It was important to me to show a people, a country and a culture, such as I had seen in my childhood. Many times, the Polish were surprised when I was photographing the streets and the people, these scenes seeming trivial or ugly. But for me, it was the way back to my memories, memories of times where everything was possible.
Indeed, this Poland of the 90s wasn't yet standardized, and as well-organized as the Western countries. It was still a country where everyone was tinkering around and mending things as they could, where imagination was the main tool to solve the daily challenges.
It was this improvised side of everyday life that had me most fascinated, and which symbolized this freedom of spirit that I have remembered of this country, where I have yet hardly lived.
The streets in Paris, like in many major cities, offer a live performance, where the actors play themselves: passers-by immersed in their daily lives, walking side by side on the sidewalks of the city without seeing one another, absorbed in their own thoughts, faces daydreaming, remembering, imagining… All this leads to eyes meeting, people talking, others waiting or looking where there is nothing to see.
These are moments in between actions, in between turning points, where something has happened, and where something else is about to happen. And yet this 'in-between' that many of us live every day is an opportunity to think about, to look at, or to come across many things. Perhaps it is in those moments that most things happen, without us even noticing.
These are the moments that have been put into images, moments where we see new faces, where we meet people we don't know and others we recognize. We make decisions, we get inspired by urban landscapes, we blend into the crowd and we forget we are on the street.
In early May 1994, we arrive in Kabul. The city is located on a high plateau, and the heat is less stifling than in the other cities through which we passed. The wind is strong and the air filled with dust.
From time to time, I can hear gunfire in the distance, but the fighting front has shifted to the northern areas and the situation is stable enough for the moment in the capital.
When talking about the war, we think of soldiers, bombs, shootings, we imagine blocked roads, destroyed bridges, collapsed buildings in streets where disoriented people wander.
It is true, combat zones are terrifying. But there are also places were none of this exists, places very close from these combat zones. These are places where buildings are still standing, where people live, waiting for the war to end. People from different backgrounds and different social classes, all gathered in these makeshift shelters.
Almost all schools are occupied by these thousands of refugee families who fled the bombarded neighborhoods of the city. Classrooms are divided into several rooms by hanging simple sheets. There is no privacy, no work, and very little humanitarian aid.
This series of pictures is a tribute to the memory of all these men, women and children who have lived for years in fear and misery, their only weapon being determination and the hope that one day the war would come to an end.


As a man, beauty has always been something of a mystery to me. I'm not talking about physical beauty, or even beauty as a concept. I mean Beauty with a capital B, as in the retail category usually found next to Fragrance, before you get to Intimates and Apparel.
Gender matters here because Beauty is highly personal and because its component parts are supposed to be invisible—or at least mysterious—as far as men are concerned. I doubt that many guys, aside from beauty professionals, have any clue how concealer differs from bronzer or what luminizer or foundation even do.
But as a digital strategist, I know data, and there is no consumer category that can match the, well, beauty of the data that comes naturally to this vertical—particularly as a driver for personalizing digital shopping.


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Where Prospective, First-Time Voters Get Informed
With so many information sources, are these youths getting a skewed truth?
By Michelle R. Davis — October 29, 2018 5 min read
Nick Brown turned 18 in September and will vote for the first time in November. But the Brandon, S.D., resident admits he has some research to do.
"As of right now I know nothing," said Brown, whose high school law and government teacher registered voting-age students in class. "I don't follow politics at all, so I need to educate myself before I go in and vote."
Many first-time voters are just like Brown—they're excited about voting, but need information about candidates, issues, and even how and where to cast their ballots. They're seeking these answers from a laundry list of sources—family, social media platforms, YouTube, teachers—and often they're consulting a handful of these sources at once.
But could the influence of so many outlets—especially social media, with its inherent hyperbole, fake news, and nonstop news cycle—mean young voters are getting a skewed version of the truth? Not necessarily, said Carolyn DeWitt, the president and executive director of Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan youth-voting organization.
"This generation … is incredibly skeptical and critical," she said. "But we have to do a better job with media literacy. Knowing how to fact-check and find credible sources" is key.
Brown's first course of action is to talk to his parents.
It's the same step most young voters take. Nearly 39 percent of 18- and 19-year olds who responded to an Education Week Research Center survey about voting said they turned to family members to help them decide how to vote. It was the top choice among respondents.
But Brown said just because he's gathering information from his parents doesn't mean he's going to vote the way they do. "Some things we agree on and some we don't at all," he said. "I find my own opinions."
For Delsa Guerrero-Castillo, a 20-year-old junior at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, social media plays a significant role in the information she's collecting about elections. Twitter and Instagram are her main social media sources. She feels she gets helpful background information about candidates there, and she likes watching videos about issues.
Guerrero-Castillo said she takes note of what friends post and retweet, and also searches Twitter using hashtags to get differing perspectives on candidates. For example #StaceyAbrams—the name of Georgia's Democratic candidate for governor—is a common search of hers.
But Guerrero-Castillo also is attuned to the fact that information gleaned on social media may not be reliable. "I'm aware it can be pretty biased, so I look on Google to double-check information," she said. She considers social media "a double-edged sword," because there's a lot of information available, but it's not always reliable and her generation can be swayed by what they consume there.
Respondents to the Education Week Research Center survey said they got a significant amount of election-related information on social media: 30 percent used Instagram, 25 percent used Facebook, 23 percent tapped Snapchat, and 21 percent looked to Twitter. The September survey was conducted with support from the Education Writers Association.
That survey result is mostly in line with those from a 2018 college pre-election civic youth poll by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), based at Tufts University. But that poll, which questioned 18- to 24-year-olds in September who said they would be first-time voters in this election, also found 90 percent of respondents turned to up to six types of sources for election information.
"They're hearing about elections in different places," said Abby Kiesa, the director of impact at CIRCLE. And even if the source is social media, information may come from friends and family, outside organizations, candidates, or news sources.
But there are concerns about the impact and reach of social media. Fake news, manipulation techniques, disinformation, and even a phenomena like Instagram flop accounts—places where discussions on hot-button topics may spread incorrect and unreliable information—all worry observers.
"It raises a concern because of what we saw in 2016 with disinformation about campaigns on Facebook and Twitter," Kiesa said.
But just because young voters are swimming in the social media pond, that doesn't always mean they're being taken in by information that's skewed, she said. "When a young person is looking at a social media outlet, they might be looking at specific people they trust and writing off others," she said. "That trust on social media is important."
In fact, a report released in October by the Pew Research Center found that younger Americans are actually better than older Americans at discerning what information is accurate.
In that survey, a third of 18- to 49-year-olds were able to determine whether statements presented to them were fact or fiction, and 44 percent were able to classify which statements were opinions.
A bigger problem, however, may be that younger voters often aren't getting much information at all about elections, said Clarissa Martinez, the deputy vice president in the office of research, advocacy, and legislation at the nonpartisan Hispanic voter group UnidosUS, which has a youth-voting initiative called the Power of 18. That's particularly true among young Latino voters, she said.
"In many ways, candidates and parties are not reaching out," she said. "Young voters often feel they don't have enough accurate information."
In the Education Week Research Center poll, prospective voters also rated television news (cited by nearly 38 percent), YouTube (named by 33 percent), and school and teachers (selected by 32 percent) as important sources of information.
For Maggi Davis, a University of Vermont freshman from Denver, it took some digging to make her election choices. Looking at her absentee ballot, she realized she wasn't familiar with the candidates' names or with the ballot initiatives. Before she sent the ballot off, she talked to her parents, and went to the website of her local news station in Denver—KUSA 9News—which featured what she considered to be an impartial review of candidates and issues.
She avoided social media because "I know that's pretty biased," she said. "I was trying to go for reliable, not partisan, information."
Afterward she felt ready to fill out her ballot. So does Guerrero-Castillo in Atlanta, who didn't vote the first time she had an opportunity to in 2016.
"I missed out on the importance of having my voice heard," she said. "I don't want to miss out on that again."
Michelle R. Davis
Writer, Education Week
Michelle R. Davis formerly wrote for Education Week.
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A version of this article appeared in the October 31, 2018 edition of Education Week as Where Young Voters Learn the Political Scene: Google, YouTube, Mom and Dad
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National Park Service Press Release
Jeffrey Olson, (NPS) 202-208-6843
Blake Androff, (DOI) 202-208-6416
National Parks Serve as Powerful Economic Engines for Local Communities, Supporting 252,000 Jobs
Visitor Spending Results in $30.1 Billion Economic Benefit
WASHINGTON –National Parks continued to be important economic engines for local communities, with visitors generating $30.1 billion in economic activity and supporting 252,000 jobs nationwide in 2011, according to a peer-reviewed report released today by the National Park Service.
"Places like the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty take our breath away and inspire us with their beauty and history, but our national parks also serve as anchors for our nation's economy," said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. "People who visit parks need transportation, places to stay, and meals to eat – all of which support businesses and provide jobs in local communities."
The statistics for 2011 are based on the spending of nearly 279 million national park visitors; more than one third of that total spending, or $13 billion, went directly into communities within 60 miles of a park. The numbers are on par with previous years.
"Everyone knows that national parks are great places to visit that offer inspiring educational experiences, unparalleled outdoor recreation, and a whole lot of fun," said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. "But what this report shows is that America's national parks are also critical economic engines, not only for our neighbors in gateway communities, but for our entire country. The national parks return more than $10 for every $1 the American taxpayer invests in the National Park Service; that makes good stewardship sense and good business sense."
Salazar and Jarvis warned that mandatory budget cuts under sequestration will result in reduced hours of operation for visitor centers, shorter seasons, and possibly closing campgrounds, hiking trails, and other recreational areas when there is insufficient staff to ensure the protection of visitors, staff and resources. Should Congress fail to act before the March 1 deadline, the public should expect reduced hours and services not only at America's 398 national parks but also at the 561 national wildlife refuges and over 268 public land units.
The reduced services will have a direct impact on the local communities and businesses that depend on the income generated from visitors to America's public lands.
The National Park Service report is done on an annual basis and is prepared through a cooperative agreement with Michigan State University. The entire report, with information by park and by state on visitor spending, jobs and other impacts, is available online at: http://www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/products.cfm#MGM (click 'Economic Benefits to Local Communities from National Park Visitation and Payroll, 2011'). According to the report, most visitor spending supports jobs in lodging, food, and beverage service (63 percent) followed by recreation and entertainment (17 percent), other retail (11 percent), transportation and fuel (7 percent), and wholesale and manufacturing (2 percent).
This week the National Park Service also released its 2012 visitation numbers showing an increase of 3.8 million over the previous year for a total of 282.8 million visitors to the National Park Service's 398 parks. Visitation broken down by park and state is available online at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/. These numbers will be the basis for next year's economic benefits report.
For more state-by-state information on national parks and how the National Park Service is working with communities go towww.nps.gov/[STATENAME], for example: http://www.nps.gov/virginia.
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It is amazing what you can discover about the shape of one's opponents' hands by simply playing out winners. It can have a significant impact on how you will play in arriving at a key decision.
Although East passed initially, they were able to call 2 on their second turn to speak. However, with West passing throughout, North-South headed swiftly upwards and reached, slightly optimistically, 7NT. West led 8 to East's 10 and South's queen.
Declarer had four spade tricks, three or four in hearts and two in diamonds. Even if hearts broke favourably, South needed three in clubs, which meant dropping the queen in two rounds or taking a successful finesse.
Most declarers were in 6NT where losing a trick was not critical. However, two were in 7NT. One met a very early death by attacking clubs immediately. The other tried to make the decision less of a guess.
At trick 2, South played a club to the ace (only 2 and 3 appeared.. no queen!) followed by the A. Next came K followed by two more hearts to the A and Q. Both defenders followed to three rounds of hearts.
Declarer now played their three high spade winners throwing their three lowest clubs from dummy. East discarded a diamond on the fourth spade.
Finally, when South cashed the A, West played 5 and East 4.
So, what did South know at this point? West had started with five spades and three hearts (both confirmed) at least two diamonds and at least one club.
East had started with three cards in each major suit (confirmed) and at least one club. One would assume East held at least five diamonds to have overcalled 2 though more likely in entering a live auction,6.
If East had only five diamonds, there was still room for them to hold a second club (if East had Qxx, the contract was doomed while the diamond lead broke up any squeeze chances). If East had 6 diamonds, their exact shape was known 3361 with a singleton club.
That was now the evidence South had when they played their second club at trick 11. Dummy had a high 9 and KJ. The odds in favour of finessing were now much greater than had declarer played clubs much earlier.
Our declarer did finesse and was duly rewarded when this was the full lay-out.
There was no guarantee: one might argue that East might have made a weak jump overcall to 3 with six diamonds rather than simply bidding 2 over 2 .
There is always a possible down-side to making bids with very weak hands. Without East's 2 bid, West may well have led a spade from their hand. Now, South may or may not have taken the club finesse: without opposition bidding, the odds favour a 2-2 break in the suit. The initial lead told declarer a lot about the defenders' hands and ultimately to make the right decision.
Bid them up and play them as well as you can. Count and draw what conclusions you can, as John Skipper did.


The Republican leader of the Virginia Senate plans to vote to confirm Helen Dragas to a controversial second four-year term on the University of Virginia board of visitors.
In announcing his support Monday, Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr., R-James City, cited comments by U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan that it wouldn't "be productive to continue to re-hash the events of June."
But he also said refusing to confirm Dragas would weaken the governing boards of public universities.
The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee is expected to take up Dragas' confirmation this afternoon.
Dragas, initially appointed to the board by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine in 2008, as rector led the board's unsuccessful attempt to fire Sullivan. Gov. Bob McDonnell reappointed her to the board days after Sullivan was reinstated. Some lawmakers and alumni have protested her reappointment.
"In considering whether to confirm this reappointment, I put great weight in the judgment of the leadership of the University of Virginia," Norment said in a statement. "For me, President Sullivan's remarks to a legislative forum held at the university in December were particularly instructive on what is the best course of action in this circumstance."
He said it is clear that Sullivan believes it is in the best interests of "the university to move beyond last summer's controversy."
But Norment also said state universities must have a leadership dynamic "of cooperation between boards of visitors in a supervisory role and the schools' administrations in an executive role."
"Failing to confirm this reappointment would send the wrong message to those who serve on Virginia's boards of visitors," he said. A rejection "would effectively weaken the boards in their necessary mission of providing guidance, direction and oversight of our colleges and universities."
However, Norment's announcement was followed by an email to state lawmakers from a group of U.Va. alumni urging them not to misinterpret Sullivan's comments.
"President Sullivan must try to minimize conflict under the governance structure in place," the message from U.Va. Alumni for Responsible Corporate Governance said.


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21 Февраля 2019, Informare.it. «Grom (UTLC ERA): 10% of the containers transported by sea on the Asia-Europe routes could be sent by railway»
United Transport and Logistics Company - Eurasian Rail Alliance, a service provider for the transport of containers by rail, presents ist services at the Transpotec Logitec in Verona.
Over 70 per cent of transit freight on scheduled container trains on the wide-gauge railway 1520 between China and Europe and between South-East Asia and Europe are transported by the joint stock company "United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Rail Alliance" or UTLC ERA. The time that UTLC ERA needs to transport goods from China to Europe on this route of 5,430 kilometres is 5½ days.
"Today, it can be stated openly that container transit is the youngest and fastest growing segment of the rail transportation market. The volume of transit traffic in 2018 was 35% per cent higher than in 2017 and amounted to more than 370 000 TEU. But the potential of the market remains colossal. More than 23 million TEU per year are delivered to Europe from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and in the opposite direction by sea. Up to 10 per cent of this volume could be delivered by Eurasian railway", the Alexey Grom said. "As a strategic goal, the UTLC ERA is planning to have one million containers on its route by 2025".
At the Transpotec Logitec, the UTLC ERA introduces the Eurasian Rail Alliance Index ERAI and related project website www.index1520.com. The newly developed Eurasian Rail Alliance Index is the complex indicator of the rail transportation cost along the Eurasian rail corridor in the territories of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. It helps Italian and European companies to automatically calculate the transportation cost between China and EU.
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Nobu Inks New Lease at AT&T Building, Leaving Tribeca for FiDi
By Adrienne Gaffney February 10, 2015 5:30 pm
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Tribeca staple Nobu will find a new, Wall Street-area home in the iconic AT&T Building come 2017, the New York Post first reported. The news comes amidst a heightened demand for high end dining in the area as Condé Nast, Time Inc. and other publishing companies make homes downtown.
Nobu, owned by Robert DeNiro, Drew Nierporent and chef Nobu Matsuhisa, has signed a 15-year lease for the 14,384-square-foot space on the ground floor and lower level at 195 Broadway at Fulton Street.
The trendy eatery will be giving up its digs in Tribeca at 105 Hudson Street.
L&L Holdings, the AT&T Building's landlord, spent eight years investing $50 million in efforts to convert the lobby to retail space, L&L's David Berkey told Commercial Observer.
The broker exclusively handled the deal, which was signed last week. He declined to discuss asking rents, but said that other spaces in the building have asking rents that range from $500 to $600 per square foot.
Mr. Berkey cited the recent Condé Nast move to 1 World Trade Center as sparking a wave of dining establishments moving to the area, suggesting that the presence of Nobu could help the dining scene flourish there much as it did for Tribeca 20 years ago.
"We're really excited for what it means for Lower Manhattan," Mr. Berkey said.
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A full breakdown of what to pack for the Camino de Santiago trip with MEC Adventures. Remember to come prepared for your time in the cities and for evenings eating and relaxing, too.
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An Accountable Life | Sunday of the Great Judgment 2022
Now available at patristic nectar dot Org. patristic nectar publications is pleased to present theological foundations God, man and the world in Genesis one through three a ten lecture series. The opening chapters of the Holy Bible provide the fundamental elements of the Christian World View. There we learn about the one true God, the human being fashioned in God's image and God's meaning infused creation. These texts, which have always formed a central element in the Church's catechetical ministry, present the most important of Christian convictions. These chapters are particularly relevant today, as secularism has suppressed these essential truths from the Western mind and priests can no longer assume that these basic theological affirmations are believed by those coming to the church or raised in the church. These lectures are presented as an aid in the formation of catechumens and as an effort to set forth the transcendent beauty of the glory of God, of the human being and of God's magnificent world. For these and other available titles, visit our website at patristic nectar dot org. And now the arena with Father Josiah Trennam and the name of the father, end of the son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. A blessed Lord's Day to all of you, brothers and sisters. Thank you. I stand with sobriety this morning in the liturgy, on this Sunday of the great judgment. The church has been molding us in these pre lent in Sundays, preparing us to repent in the great season of lent, encouraging us to seek the renewal of our souls in these holy days. All of the saints loved great lent. They loved it. So many saints describe the days leading up to great lent in their own life to be days full of incredible anticipation. I want to be like that and I want you to be like that, to not to dread not eating meat, not to dread the challenges that will come and lend, but to have anticipation that this is about your transformation, to remember how low the Lord bows to be with us and to change us during the holy days of great lent. This is the most terrible of all Sundays of the year. Certainly in the appostical less night invespers there is one hymn that begins the way I think this whole Sunday makes us fill by saying woe is me. This is how the hymn begins. Woe is me, woe are we? For certainly we will come before the judgment seat of Christ. Today we heard from the Gospel of Same Matthew that incredible account that our savior presents to us about his second coming and about what will happen then. The Angels Will Fill Thatmospheric Heavens. Well, hear their voices, will hear the trumpet of the Archangel. Christ himself will appear, but not as he appeared in his humiliation on the earth. Christ will appear in radiant glory, the same glory...
...that blinded the eyes of St Paul before he was a Christian, the same glory that eclipsed the Sun, the same glory that Saint Stephen Saw when he saw the heavens opened and Christ standing at the right hand of the father. Jesus. is going to come like that, and then he's going to set up his glorious throne. That's central focus in the apocalypse, the throne of God upon which Christ sits. Then there's going to be a great gathering those who are living at the time from all the ends of the earth will come before the throne and all those who have lived and died, the vast, vast majority of the human race, will be raised from the bowels of the Earth. I'll come forth. Those that the sea consumed will be given up by the sea and every human being who has ever lived will be gathered before the throne of Christ for that moment of great and divine accountability. And after the great gathering they'll be a great separation. Christ himself will separate all of us into two. He began doing this when he came to the earth and worked his miracles and began to call out his disciples, and he promised that for we who have chosen to follow him, that we ourselves will work this division, that Christ's presence in US and in families will separate those who love him and those who don't, that even biological families will be divided over Christ. That separation comes to a culmination at the great judgment seat, when he himself will put some on his right and some on his left. On the right he'll put the sheep, who have a fundamental commonality that explains why they're on his right, and on his left he'll put the goats that also share a fundamental commonality, which explains why they're on his left. And then he'll issue a great judgment, a great declaration, inviting those on his right into the Kingdom of his father, an unspeakable blessedness for all eternity, and then saying to those on his left, depart from me, into everlasting fire reserve for the devil and his angels. This is the day that's coming. It's very, very important for us the church doesn't just bring the subject of the judgment before us on this Sunday, which she does, and there's many reasons for that. May Be all of these wonderful preltent Sundays haven't been enough to excite you and motivate you for lent. And so now, on this Sunday, we recognize that what God's asking us to be the love that he's asking us to acquire, the virtue he's asking us to culivate. It's not a suggestion. It's not a suggestion, it's a divine command. It must be done, dear ones. But besides this sober Sunday, we think and pray about the great judgment seat every single day. Think of the prayer that almost all of you say every single morning in your morning prayers. That's provided universally...
...in all of our prayer books. Suddenly, the judge shall come and the deeds of each shall be revealed, but with fear. We cry out in the middle of the night through the Thil Tokos. Have mercy on us. We meditate upon this every day, knowing that a day can't be lived properly without the thought of the judgment seat, without the sobriety that comes from it. This is our morning remembrance. And remember that this teaching that we just heard in the Gospel it follows. Immediately preceding it, Jesus is teaching about the talents, the fact that God has given to every person, every human being, talent, some five, some two, some one, and that God will ask for an accounting of the use of our talents. Then he explains how and when that accounting will take place in his next teaching that you heard this morning. This is the centrality, this is our of the judgment, this is our world view, our Christian understanding of things. Our lives, dear one, all of our lives are heading towards a goal, towards this day. We call it the Great Day. It's what we're looking for. We say in the creed that goal is not dissolution into the great impersonal one, like some false religions teach. Nor is it a reed do we come to the end of our life and then we go back again as someone else and we redo it, as though there's some sort of reincarnational or cyclical principle. We don't believe that either. We don't lose our personalities and we don't start again. In fact, we come to a culmination of our life for the great evaluation that will determine our eternal happiness or unhappiness. And notice also that no one but human beings are judged. No animals are judged, apes are not judged. Human beings are judged because we're uniquely God's image, uniquely recipients of freedom and reason. The standard is shocking. Soon, I trust, if the world continues, and who knows if it will? If the world continues, soon this Gospel text will be more centrally placed in your heart because you'll see it depicted in that vault over the NARTHEX, that beautiful small vault, vault we have slated to depict the icon of the great judgment, but not the typical icon of the great judgment that you would see in the NARTHEX. That is the place in the Byzantine scheme of iconography where you put the icon of the great judgment, often on the rear wall, so as you walk out you remember it. But the icon that we're going to place is not the Great River of Fire and Christ on the throne. It's rather it's called the V an Ecu icon and it has each of the six references made to the standard of Judgment in the Gospel text. Today. I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, exandos and you came to me, you visited me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and in prison and you came to me. It has each of those actions, those virtues, depicted in a man, a naked man, a hungry man, a thirsty man and imprisoned man, a foreign men. Each is DEP did...
...will be depicted in the vault there with the face of Christ. It's a beautiful, beautiful icon and I trust that your children and grandchildren who are growing up now, for them it will be just normal. They'll hear this gospel in a different way their whole life because they'll be able to gaze upon that magnificent icon coming and going from the church and the years to come, if there are years to come, this is the standard are. The Standard in this text is whether or not we have lived a life of loving deeds towards our neighbor, very specific neighbors, those in need in our life, those who are hungry, if we cared about that, those who are thirsty, and this has to do with not just physical hunger, but psychological hunger, spiritual hunger, those who are an an outsider. How we relate to outsiders? How we relate to those who are naked, who are wretched, who would be ignored by us if it wasn't for Christ in us? How do we react to the rip, to the wretched, to those who are sick and in great need, and to those who are in prison? Jesus taught us that all judge meant has been given to him by his father. The father judges no one, but all judgment has been given to the son. And then Paul Develops that teaching even further and says, don't you understand to the Corinthians. He said that the saints will judge the world. First, Corinthians, thirty one, don't you understand that the saints will judge the world? What does this mean? How does God judge through Christ, through the saints? Elder sophroni describes in his writings, when he was first repenting of his sins, that he had a terrible temptation to think terrible thoughts about God, because he thought it was unfair that God would judge men. And then he understood, finally God got through to him that God judges no one, that he's given all judgment to his son, and that Christ himself is going to be the judge of men on the last day, Christ who lived as a man and showed us what a man was. And then he learned even further that the saints themselves have a role in the judgment of the nations, because saints in every generation and in every place bear witness to what a human is and what a human can be. You all know that there's only one reason that I'm not a saint, and that's because I haven't used my freedom to become one. I stand in shame that I'm not becoming a saint is not just something that God does. Wh I pick that one and I pick this one over here and that one over here. To become a saint as the calling of every person to love God with our whole heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This is the calling for every person, and the saints bear witness that it's possible. They're the same people as we are, living in the same culture with the same temptations. What's the difference? The difference is how we use our freedom and the choices that we make. This is the difference between people who become saints and people who are more like devils. This is how the saints judge the world. I want you to see,...
...also their ones in this text, the different reactions of the sheep and the goats to the judgment of Christ. How did the sheep respond? Well, they responded with incredible humility. When the Lord said to them inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world, they said, wait, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry and feed you? When did we ever see you thirsty and give a drink to you? We never saw you as a stranger and came to you. I don't remember seeing you naked, Lord. I don't remember when you were sick or when you were in prison and we came to you. Notice this attitude, this incredible humility, and not just a humility but a competition with Jesus in humility, literally saying, Lord, you don't no offense, you are the master who sees all things, but just on this one point, just on this one point, you're wrong. We don't remember doing any of those things. Not only had they cultivated humility, they had learned not to do their good deeds before men, as Jesus teaches us in the sermon on the Mount. They didn't trumpet their deeds. It's a matter of fact they went further. Not only did they hide them from men, they hid them from themselves. They fulfilled Jesus is teaching not to let their left hand even know what their right hand was doing. They embraced and Nimity of themselves with regards to their good deeds. The only things that they were remember are their mistakes and they covered over all of their good deeds. This kind of humility, elder sophroni calls quote, hollowed self, hatred unquote, hollowed self hatred. Now look at the goats. Look at the damned. What attitude they had when the judgment was rendered. They literally contradicted God. At the judgment God spoke and they contradicted him. Ooof they complained to him. When, when did we do those things? When did we make when did we fail? They justified themselves. You know, it's sad enough for us to justify ourselves, and we all do it. We all do it. Hey, baby, you know those onyx stones are paradisal, especially when the babies crawl on them and especially when the when the brides, come down on them. They just glow. They just glow. They justified themselves. These goats. They had no shame to compete with God. They literally were insane. And that's what happens when we are proud. We don't let the love of God fill our hearts. You know, set John of Sinai in his fourth in his fourth step, which is all on obedience, as the second longest step in the ladder of the thirty steps to Paradise, he describes the man who justifies himself. He says whoever justifies himself is an enemy of his own salvation.
Oh, whoever justifies himself, he says, renounces his own salvation. It's a form of madness to justify ourselves. We're like these people. Yesterday we began our spring, late winter and spring catechism for our catechumans, glory to God for all of them. I was telling the catechumans yesterday I was giving the first lecture, which is on Holy Baptism, and I was explaining the miracle that takes place in baptism and I was describing it in under the image of seeing this magnificent icon that I had seen once back in one thousand nine hundred and ninety seven. The icon was an icon painted in the fourteen century of St Gregory Polymas, the Great Archbishop of Thessalonica and Saint of the church, who name is celebrated on the second Sunday of great lent. I was at the monastery of Vattel pevy and Mount Athos and they have the oldest church dedicated to him as well, and in there they have an icon, massive icon that's considered by the church to be the very first icon that was ever painted of St Gregory, and when I was there it's not that way today, but when I was there in one thousand nine hundred and ninety seven, the icon was extremely confusing to look at because from the waist up there was one set of vestments on him and from the waist down a completely different set and a different color. And I asked my guest master, I said, what's going on here? What is that? He said, look more closely. This icon, which was at that time over six hundred and fifty years old or so, had been venerated and honored for so many years, in centuries, so many candles had burned before that icon of Saint Gregory that the first icon actually was completely covered over with soot. And so in the nineteen century a Russian iconographer painted St Gregory with a whole new set of vestments, the exact same icon, just painting over him and restoring the icon so that you could see it. And so what had happened two hundred years later now was that they had hired and expert rest sorer and they were actually removing the nineteen century second version from the original in order to bring the icon back to its original, pristine condition. This is an image very much an image of baptism. We're all made in the image of God and called to develop his likeness in our lives by our sins. All sort of soot covers us. That image is covered over, it's darkened, it's not eradicated. It's there but you can hardly see it. When a person goes into baptism it's like going into the best cleaner. Just imagine if you have some beautiful old piece of silver. You've seen those commercials where they take some fancy cleaner and they dip your silver dish into the cleaner halfway and they pull it out and the whole bottom part is completely restored in the top is still muck. This is us. When we go into the Baptismal Font. Were completely submerged into the grace of God, which is the greatest cleaner of all, and we come out radiant. The image is restored. St John Krassost them says when we come out of the Baptismal Font every person is so radiant that the angels themselves have to put their wings up like this to function as kind of angelic sunglasses so that they don't burn their angelic eyes by looking at the radiance of our glory. Coming out with a restored image. But that is not the likeness.
The likeness is a CO operative venture between you and God. Saint Viavoco so Fhotigi, in the PHILOCALIA describes this process, emphasizing the same things that Jesus emphasized are going to be the most important matters on the Day of Judgment. Listen to what he says. He says divine grace confers on US two gifts through the baptism of regeneration, one being infinitely superior to the other. The first gift is to give to us at once, when grace renews us in the actual waters of baptism and cleanses all the lineaments of our soul, that is, the image of God in us, by washing away every stain of sin. This is the first gift. The second gift, our likeness to God, requires co operation. When the mind begins to perceive the Holy Spirit with full consciousness, we should discern that grace is beginning to paint the divine likeness over the divine image in us. Artists first draw the outline of a man in mony a chrome and then add one color after another until, little by little, they capture the likeness of the subject down to the smallest of details. Like the smile. In the same way, the grace of God starts by remaking the divine image and man into what it was when he was first created. But when it sees US longing with all of our heart for the beauty of the divine likeness and humbly standing, then, by making one virtue after another come into flower and exalting the beauty of the soul from Glory to glory, it depicts the divine likeness in the soul. Something similar happens to those who are being repainted by God's grace in the divine likeness. When the luminosity of love is added, then it is evident that the image has been fully transformed into the beauty of the likeness. Love alone among the virtues can convert dispassion on the soul, for love is the fulfilling of the commandments, and in this way our inner man is renewed through the experience of love, and in the perfection of love our inner man finds its own fulfillment. That's from his text on spiritual knowledge in the first volume of the field of Kalia. Dear ones, this is what we're shooting for. A lent God has given to you the grace of Holy Baptism, he's restored his image inside of you. But the development of the likeness is chiefly accomplished by the acquisition of love. This is why we are enthused and why we're zealous to embrace great lent. Let's do this together. Let's seriously, seriously, focus on renewing our soul this land. Let's make it our number one ambition, let's lay aside the things that are tripping us up and are keeping us from running, and let's have a super clear focus on learning to take care of those who are in need around us in these ways that Jesus says are going to be so important on the last day. Let's try to have a competition to while we do it, a competition in humility, not looking at other...
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515 ASSOCIATES v. TRAVELERS INDEM. CO., 160 Fed.Appx. 147 (3rd Cir. 2005)
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515 ASSOCIATES LLC, Appellant, v. TRAVELERS INDEMNITY CO. OF ILLINOIS t/a Travelers Property Casualty Group.
No. 03-4332.United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) December 12, 2005.
Filed December 16, 2005.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This case is unpublished as indicated by the issuing court.]
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. (D.C. No. 01-cv-02295). District Judge: Honorable William H. Walls.
Harry P. Begier, Jr., Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.
Thomas S. Brown, Andrew S. Granzow, Hecker, Brown, Sherry
Johnson, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee.
Before SLOVITER, SMITH, and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
515 Associates, LLC ("515 Associates") appeals from the order of the District Court granting summary judgment in favor of defendant Travelers Indemnity Company ("Travelers").[1]
Appellant 515 Associates, LLC, owns and operates an apartment complex in Newark, New Jersey, that is equipped with three Westinghouse elevators. The elevators were installed in 1962, and are covered by a boiler and machinery insurance policy issued by Travelers. The policy provides coverage for damage caused by an "accident" to an "object." App. at 105a. Under the policy, "accident" is defined as follows:
"Accident" means a sudden and accidental breakdown of the "object" or part of the "object." At the time the breakdown occurs, it must become apparent by physical damage that requires repair or replacement of the "object" or part of the "object."
None of the following is an "accident":
a. Depletion, deterioration, corrosion, erosion, or wear and tear, unless a sudden and accidental breakdown ensues;
b. The breakdown of any structure or foundation; or
c. The functioning of any safety or protective device.
App. at 117a.
The policy also contained a provision to resolve a dispute over damages by appraisal, which states, in pertinent part:
If we and you disagree on the value of the property, the amount of "business income" or the amount of loss, either may make written demand for an appraisal of the loss. In this event, each party will select a competent and impartial appraiser. The two appraisers will select an umpire. If they cannot agree, either may request that selection be made by a judge of a court having jurisdiction.
On January 27, 1999, 515 Associates reported a loss due to a "major elevator failure" having occurred on January 20, 1999. Less than a week before, on January 22, 1999, 515 Associates had issued a letter to residents of the building stating that "[d]uring the past week we have experienced a series of different failures with the building's elevators that have caused the entire system to shut down," and that an elevator consultant" advised 515 Associates that they "could continue to operate under our present maintenance contract and repair the system each time a mal-function
occurs . . . or . . replace the system with a new state of the art system." Supp.App. at 1.
515 Associates retained William Newby ("Newby") of Newmont Elevator Analysts, Inc., to inspect the elevator system. Newby, the consultant for 515 Associates, shared with Travelers his opinion that the cause of the damage "appears to be electrical . . . but it is virtually impossible to determine the direct cause." App. at 25a. He further stated:
Heat, shorts and grounds within the system damaged approximately 30% of the controller and selector components. This condition, while most severe on controller # 1, caused all three cars to fail initially. Only through an extraordinary effort by the elevator maintenance company, were they able to return Car # 2 to automatic and Car' # 3 to manual operation.
Id. He referred to "fire damage to [the] elevators," App. at 25a, but 515 Associates conceded thereafter that no fire had occurred. Instead, 515 Associates claimed that the entire control system sustained electrical damage on January 14, 1999.
Travelers retained David LaPointe of Crawford Technical Services to investigate the claim. LaPointe noted the opinion of his assistant that "the damage occurring on January 14th, 1999 are [sic] repairable at minimal costs." App. at 28a. LaPointe's inspection revealed that only a few wires were damaged and troubleshooting could repair them as other wires had been repaired in the past. Id. He observed that the equipment was "very old and is in need of replacement," and that it had "served out its useful life and is breaking down due to its age." Id.
LaPointe further stated:
We are not suggesting that the incident of January 14th, 1999 is excluded by the coverage afforded by the Travelers Property Casualty Corporation. We do suggest that the cost to repair the resultant damages are well below the applicable policy deductible and may, in fact, be repaired at no cost to the insured. We, therefore, are making no offer for "settlement" of that loss.
Any action taken by the Travelers Property Casualty Corporation or [its] representatives in investigating the cause of loss, or investigating and ascertaining the amount of sound value, or the amount of loss and damage which occurred on or about January 20th — 25th, 1999, shall not waive or invalidate any of the terms or conditions of any policy or policies and shall not waive or invalidate any rights whatever of either of the parties to the policy. No act of the company done by way of investigation, defense or participation shall be construed as any admission of coverage under said policy.
Travelers retained yet another consultant, Richard Ladroga ("Ladroga"), who agreed with LaPointe's assessment. Ladroga reported that the "damage to the elevator control system equipment is primarily age related," and that there was "no evidence of severe damage caused by any one specific accident or failure that would render the system inoperable and beyond repair." Supp.App. at 41. His report further stated that the elevators were approximately 40 years old, and that the life expectancy for this type of elevator is approximately 25 years.
On December 27, 2000, 515 Associates filed suit against Travelers seeking damages for the costs of repairing and replacing the elevator equipment. An appraisal performed pursuant to the appraisal provision of the policy awarded $80,000. Travelers moved for summary judgment and
favor of Travelers and denial of summary judgment to 515 Associates.
[1] The District Court had jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
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